Barnes, DjunaRyder New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Reissue. With Illustrations by the Author. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Slight lean to spine, in very good dust-jacket. Reissue. With Illustrations by the Author. 8vo. Djuna Barnes's Copy. Djuna Barnes's copy of the reiusse of her first novel. With a 1/2 page typescript of the dust-jacket bio blurb corrected in her hand, paid check for $300 to Hank O'Neal for his work in reissuing the title, and various clippings and material related to publication. Provenance: Djuna Barnes (her corrected typescript of jacket blurb laid-in); Hank O'Neal (Barnes's literary executor)

KITAJIMA, KeizoKeizo Kitajima: Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo (Photomail from Tokyo) (First Printing, with Black obi) [SIGNED] Paroru-sha, Tokyo 1979 - First edition, first printing (with black obi). Signed in black marker on the first page by Kitajima. Soft cover. Printed wrappers; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and 3-inch obi. Photographs by Keizo Kitajima. Text in Japanese. Includes a bound, folded poster with text and illustrations on one side and a large, two-color reproduction on the other side. Unpaginated (156 pp.), with black-and-white and four-color plates throughout. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014), and in Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. (New York: Aperture, 2009).]. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket and obi (light crumpling to the crown of the jacket spine and slight wear to the extremities of the obi, else Fine). A fascinating and quintessentially Provoke-style glimpse of the pop cultural mecca that is Tokyo's Shinjuku district. From Parr and Badger: "The combination of black and white with colour is interesting, because this is a difficult trick to pull off. The tension between Kitajima's flamboyant, contrasty, edgy monochrome and his matter-of-fact, understated colour makes this one of the most distinctive books in the wide bibliography on Shinjuku nightlife." Signed by Author. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

WELTY, EudoraWomen!! Make Turban in Own Home! (Winston-Salem]: Palaemon. (1979). First. First edition. Papercovered boards as issued. A couple of modest smudges on front board, near fine. One of 200 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 235) Signed by the author, this copy is unnumbered and designated "Publisher's Copy." Provenance on request. .

WALKER, AliceGood Night Willie Lee I'll See You In The Morning (Signed Uncorrected Proof) The Dial Press, New York 1979 - First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. The third collection of poetry from the author of "The Color Purple." A clean very near fine copy in yellow wrappers with black tape spine. Signed by Walker on the front panel. The trade edition is uncommon; the proof, even scarcer. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

Stephen KingThe Dead Zone Viking Press, New York 1979 - First/First. Signed and inscribed by King, "For Charles, Hope you like this, Stephen King 10/12/79". First Edition points: "First Published in 1979" on the copyright page, "625 Madison Avenue, New York. N.Y 10022" on copyright page and Dust Jacket, and price of $11.95. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Summit Books 1979 - First Edition, First Printing, Signed and Inscribed by Thompson the flyleaf. New York: Summit Books, 1979. A Near Fine or better copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square with next to no shelfwear to boards. A couple light spots and rubs to foredge, else Fine. Jacket shows the slightest hint of shelfwear with a crease to front flap. Thompson's fourth book and the first in the Gonzo Papers series. A beautiful, near-flawless copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Peters, JurgenJurgen Peters-Arc-1979 Serigraph 1979 - "Arc" by Jurgen Peters, Unsigned Serigraph printed in 1979. The overall size of the Serigraph is 40 x 30 inches. The condition of this piece has been graded as A: Mint. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Adams, DouglasThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with very light bruising to spine ends, several small indents to rear cover, light signed of handling to front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and small indents to rear panel, but with almost no fading to the spine panel and uncommon as such. A rather handsome copy of the first British edition.

Lester, Richard (director); Charles Wood (screenwriter); Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo (starring)Cuba (Original screenplay for the 1979 film) United Artists, Beverly Hills 1979 - First Draft script for the 1979 film, SIGNED by the director Richard Lester. With three pages of synopsis laid in. A former British major lands in Cuba to train the Cuban army to resist Castro, where he encounters an old flame who is recently brushed off by her husband. Finally a strike and the overhaul by Castro causes the British and Americans to flee, leaving his girlfriend crying and facing a new Communist government. Set in Cuba, shot on location in Spain. Purple blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, noted as a first draft screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Charles Wood. 131 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 129. Mechanically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

BOWLES, Paul Collected Stories 1939-1976. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press,, 1979. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Octavo. Handbound for the publisher by Earle Gray, quarter-bound in teal cloth with white butterfly print, ivory paper boards with multicoloured titling and Moroccan design on front panel, ivory paper label to spine with multicoloured lettering, orange endpapers. A fine copy. First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, No. 35 of 60 special copies signed by Bowles and Vidal on a tipped-in page and specially bound, from the edition of 1,110 copies. Additionally inscribed on the title page by Bowles to his biographer Virginia Spencer Carr, which reads "for Virginia, with all my love, - Paul, Tangier, 6/11/96". Virginia Spencer Carr Bowles first met Bowles in 1989 for an interview on Tennessee Williams. They formed a close friendship, and, on Gore Vidal's suggestion, Carr stopped working on her Williams biography and started work on Paul Bowles: A Life (2004). "This volume collects all of Paul Bowles' stories, many of them long out of print and unavailable, written over a period of more than thirty years, and presents them for the first time as an entity.

Hermynia zur MÃƒÂ¼hlenWas Peterchens Freunde erzÃƒÂ¤hlen (Facsimile Reprint/Faksimile-Nachdruck) Fey, 1979. Hardcover. Used; Acceptable. George Grosz. Hardcover; German language; Illustrator: George Grosz; a fair reading copy; some darkening to boards and a slight curve to rear board, top-right tip of front board is scuffed; pages are clean and unmarked. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. All international orders are sent Royal Mail airmail.

Barnes, DjunaRyder St. Martin's Press, New York 1979 - Reissue. With Illustrations by the Author. 8vo. Djuna Barnes's Copy. Djuna Barnes's copy of the reiusse of her first novel. With a 1/2 page typescript of the dust-jacket bio blurb corrected in her hand, paid check for $300 to Hank O'Neal for his work in reissuing the title, and various clippings and material related to publication. Provenance: Djuna Barnes (her corrected typescript of jacket blurb laid-in); Hank O'Neal (Barnes's literary executor) Publisher's cloth. Slight lean to spine, in very good dust-jacket With Illustrations by the Author. 8vo [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Heyboer (Heijboer), Anton -Anton Heyboer. Liefde als kunst gefotografeerd door Nico Koster. LUXURY EDITION SIGNED. Venlo, Uitgeverij Van Spijk, 1979. Embossed cloth-covered boards (hardcover), 30 x 30,6 cms., (112) pp. text in Dutch with b/w photographs including some colour by Nico Koster. Luxury edition of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy being numbered '28/50'. This book comes together with an oil in ocre on paper by Anton Heyboer, especially executed for this book, this being framed under passepartout. Housed in cloth-covered cardboard box which has got the same image in relief on the lid as the oil on paper. Extremely rare. Heyboer, Anton.

Herms, GeorgeThe Sabian Exercise Los Angeles: Love Press, 1979. First edition. 4to, 360 loose leaves housed in twelve envelopes, with printed title page, housed in an a large hand-colored cardboard box. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Artist's book by Herms, in which for one year one drawing a day was created based on Sabian symbols originally received by clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, along with psychological text interpretations of each symbol by Dane Rudyhar. A beautiful and consuming project - it seems unlikely that the full run of the book was produced, given the time it must have taken to create each box. Fine.

[ANTHOLOGY]. Mitchell, Margaretta K.RECOLLECTIONS: TEN WOMEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY NY: The Viking Press, 1979. First edition. Gilpin, Laura. 4to., 208 pp., full-page b&w photographs. Cloth over boards with the top edge slightly discolored, 4 page tips uncut; otherwise a very good copy in a moderately chipped and torn dust jacket. This volume includes a statement by each photographer, a portfolio, and a chronology and bibliography. The photographers include: Berenice Abbott, Ruth Bernhard, Carlotta M. Corpron, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nell Dorr, Toni Frissell, Laura Gilpin, Lotte Jacobi, Consuelo Kanaga and Barbara Morgan. This book was also issued as the catalogue for an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, NYC. The exhibition opened to the public on September 21, 1979. At a special preview of the exhibition on September 20, 1979, many of these photographers were in attendance. This copy was presented to Barbara Morgan and was INSCRIBED to her by Ruth Bernhard, Lotti Jacobi, Carlotta M. Corpron, Pat Schoenfeld, and Greta (Margaretta K. Mitchell).